by Sébastien Japrisot · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070316199
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«Un long dimanche de fiançailles» is the novel by Sébastien Japrisot in the Folioplus classiques paperback edition (400 pages, in French).
In January 1917, five French soldiers are taken to an enemy trench on the Somme during the First World War. Years later, in peacetime, Mathilde, a young woman who loves the youngest of them, nicknamed Bleuet, refuses to accept his death and begins a stubborn investigation to reconstruct his fate amid lies and silences, in 1920s France.
Novel winner of the Prix Interallié in 1991. Folioplus classiques edition with complete text, dossier by Christine Bénévent and image reading by Olivier Tomasini.
Edition recommended for secondary school classes and for readers of historical fiction and the First World War.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
